ECONOMIC PENSIONS

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 25, 30 January 1924, Page 9

ECONOMIC PENSIONS

MEN'S RIGHT TO EMPLOYMENT.

j . (II TILSQIUPH SPBCI.H TO IH| POST.) I DUNEDIN. This Day. I The quarterly report of the executive of the Duneilin Ilcturned Soldiers' Association states that the War Pensions Board does not seem to have grasped the full spirit of the Pension Commissions' report, where it concerns tlie grunting "of economic pensions. "The idea undcvlying this giant was that if a man by reason of his disability cguld not find suitable work or s could * not rs. tain that work, he should bo compensated for his economic loss. At the same I time it was understood that tlie Pen--1 sions Department would endeavour to place disabled men in employment. We fiave yet to learn of any man 'or whom i tlm Pensions Department has found employment." Tlie need for tlie Pensions Appeal ■. Board has been strikingly demonstrated durini*- the first sitting of tlie board, when fully 5u per cent, of the appeals presented were upheld. Too much emphasis cannot be laid upon the /act that appellants should arm themselves with every scrap-- of evidence, medical and otherwise, which has any bearing upon their appeal."